Economic & Employment

Closed31 Mar, 2021, 9:00am - 14 May, 2021, 5:00pm

Economic development provides the backbone for progress and sustainability in any town and is best achieved through a collaborative approach between the business communities, educational institutes and national agencies, with Mayo County Council facilitating, enabling and promoting economic growth. Ballina is an important service centre for North Mayo and hosts a range of industrial/enterprise businesses and has a strong focus on commerce and the manufacturing industry. A key focus of the new Local Area Plan will be to ensure that the conditions for the creation of enterprise and innovation are embraced and developed and to encourage and facilitate a diversity of employment opportunities, promote inward investment and commerce.

 

Questions to Consider:

Q. What, in your opinion, are the economic strengths and competitive advantages of Ballina?

Q. What can Ballina do to attract further investment and foster local economic development and entrepreneurship?

Q. Is there sufficiently zoned industrial/economic/ business land in the current zoning plans and how can the Local Area Plan promote economic development within Ballina?

Economic and Enterprise Development
Q. What, in your opinion, are the economic strengths and competitive advantages of Ballina?   Competitive Advantages include the location of the town on the river Moy, the estuary,...
Submission on behalf of An Post on the Pre-Draft Strategic Issues Paper for the Ballina Town & Environs Plan 2021-2027.
Please see attached the submission on behalf of An Post on the Pre-Draft Strategic Issues Paper for the Ballina Town & Environs Plan 2021-2027. 
Make Ballina an attractive place to live and work
Ballina has much going for it. It is big enough to be able to offer a good array of services and facilities to people. It has a good selection of schools, it has many well established sports clubs (...
Q. What can Ballina do to attract further investment and foster local economic development and entrepreneurship?
The IT hub for the military barracks is a great initiative for the town. If it is actually successful, there will be nowhere for temporary workers in the town to rent! I briefly looked on Daft last...
Q. What, in your opinion, are the economic strengths and competitive advantages of Ballina?
The surrounding area has loads of potential from a tourism point of view. Its just not sold or packaged very well and remains largely unknown for tourists. It has the potential to do well as...